WRITER · TEACHER · ESSAYIST


Tim Gibson

I write about class, memory, education, place, and the lives people inherit.

selected essays

a selection of essays on class, memory, education, and place.

misread
an essay on depression, class, and elite schooling, and on what institutions miss when they mistake performance for a person.

the better part of the inheritance
an essay on america, europe, and the moral inheritance of liberal democracy in a time of weakening conviction.

the greek ghost
an essay on greece, brexit, memory, and the lingering fear that a society can quietly lose its promise of a normal future.